Good morning friend!
Thank you for forwarding the Chennai friend's message. It's 100% right. Here there is a Tamil phrase. That is 'An experience education will teach lessons rather than the school not!
Kerala the state has been in a repeated experience of the calamity by the flood and Nipah as well. From that ironical experiences, the people learned the lesson what you said they know the way to protect them first and also how to rescue people. The people have started the rescue centers as earlier before availing the aid from the Central Government. It is true!
In general, the disasters might be identified into two different sections. One is the natural calamity, and another one is human error. Natural calamity is difficult to avoid. At present, what happened to you. Secondly, the human errors. Like experienced to us three years before. By the way, avoiding the human errors, we can safeguard us. But unfortunately, we missed to alerting the people in Chennai before opening the shutters. For example, at a given time, not the opening of shutters at the Chembarampakam lake in Chennai would leave the great losses.
Whatever it is, I regret this tragedy for the Kerala brothers and sisters. I appreciated them for knowing the lessons from the past events by that handled these situations correctly.
Finally, am going to end this by saying what our saint Thiruvalluvar has said.
435. வருமுன்னர்க் காவாதான் வாழ்க்கை எரிமுன்னர்
வைத்தூறு போலக் கெடும்.
Translation :
His joy who guards not 'gainst the coming evil day,
Like straw before the fire shall swift consume away.
Explanation :
The prosperity of him who does not timely guard against faults, will perish like straw before fire.
Translation by Rev. Dr. G. U. Pope, Rev W. H. Drew,Rev. John Lazarus and Mr F. W. Ellis
Your loving friend
P.Sivashanmugam
Austin.TX. U.S.A.
22.08.18
Thank you for forwarding the Chennai friend's message. It's 100% right. Here there is a Tamil phrase. That is 'An experience education will teach lessons rather than the school not!
Kerala the state has been in a repeated experience of the calamity by the flood and Nipah as well. From that ironical experiences, the people learned the lesson what you said they know the way to protect them first and also how to rescue people. The people have started the rescue centers as earlier before availing the aid from the Central Government. It is true!
In general, the disasters might be identified into two different sections. One is the natural calamity, and another one is human error. Natural calamity is difficult to avoid. At present, what happened to you. Secondly, the human errors. Like experienced to us three years before. By the way, avoiding the human errors, we can safeguard us. But unfortunately, we missed to alerting the people in Chennai before opening the shutters. For example, at a given time, not the opening of shutters at the Chembarampakam lake in Chennai would leave the great losses.
Whatever it is, I regret this tragedy for the Kerala brothers and sisters. I appreciated them for knowing the lessons from the past events by that handled these situations correctly.
Finally, am going to end this by saying what our saint Thiruvalluvar has said.
435. வருமுன்னர்க் காவாதான் வாழ்க்கை எரிமுன்னர்
வைத்தூறு போலக் கெடும்.
Translation :
His joy who guards not 'gainst the coming evil day,
Like straw before the fire shall swift consume away.
Explanation :
The prosperity of him who does not timely guard against faults, will perish like straw before fire.
Translation by Rev. Dr. G. U. Pope, Rev W. H. Drew,Rev. John Lazarus and Mr F. W. Ellis
Your loving friend
P.Sivashanmugam
Austin.TX. U.S.A.
22.08.18